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Rcvr sight not original, but with a model as rare as this, you can’t pick & choose. Big Larry is the only one I know who owns another.
clarence said
Rcvr sight not original, but with a model as rare as this, you can’t pick & choose. Big Larry is the only one I know who owns another.https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/1041625951
Amazing, is the fact, that this rifle is #7000 and mine is #7001. I would buy this rifle for a consecutive set, but it has no condition. Mine has two holes drilled into the receiver where a former owner installed a Lyman 48 sight. Other than that, it is a real nice rifle with over 98% of the Japan finish still present. I had to buy another rifle to fix this very scarce Stainless rifle. Big Larry
Big Larry said
clarence said
Rcvr sight not original, but with a model as rare as this, you can’t pick & choose. Big Larry is the only one I know who owns another.
https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/1041625951
Amazing, is the fact, that this rifle is #7000 and mine is #7001. I would buy this rifle for a consecutive set, but it has no condition. Mine has two holes drilled into the receiver where a former owner installed a Lyman 48 sight. Other than that, it is a real nice rifle with over 98% of the Japan finish still present. I had to buy another rifle to fix this very scarce Stainless rifle. Big Larry
Found a couple more pics of my SS M52. Big Larry
I think the 2 rifles deserve to be near each other, when are you going to find consecutive number rifles with stainless barrels again?
Best Regards,
WACA Life Member #6284 - Specializing in Pre-64 Winchester .22 Rimfire
JWA said
I think the 2 rifles deserve to be near each other, when are you going to find consecutive number rifles with stainless barrels again?Best Regards,
Probably never, but I don’t collect these any longer. I’m back to Smith and Wessons. Just bought a Victory from the US Maritime Commission. Has BPD on the grip frame. Letter states after the war it was sold to the Boston PD. After the war, I lived in Boston. Big Larry
JWA said
I think the 2 rifles deserve to be near each other, when are you going to find consecutive number rifles with stainless barrels again?
Soulmates, separated by fate. Larry could have one for display, one to shoot.
Blue Ridge Parson said
There is something special about having consecutive numbered Winchesters.Here are two pair of mine:
Did you find them separately, or had they already been paired when you acquired them?
clarence said
Rcvr sight not original, but with a model as rare as this, you can’t pick & choose. Big Larry is the only one I know who owns another.https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/1041625951
That ones not rare. This one is rare. Big Larry
Big Larry said
clarence said
Rcvr sight not original, but with a model as rare as this, you can’t pick & choose. Big Larry is the only one I know who owns another.
https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/1041625951
That ones not rare. This one is rare. Big Larry
I’m not a .22 guy, but even I know enough to know this is a very rare rifle.
steve004 said I’m not a .22 guy, but even I know enough to know this is a very rare rifle.
Before non-corrosive ammo (1927), stainless would have been a great advantage. Stainless still listed as an option in the ’29 catalog, dropped by ’33. At least one Model 1904 or similar low-cost boy’s rifle has turned up with a stainless brl. Speculation is that factory discovered buyers weren’t lining up to pay the premium for stainless, & began offering them at reduced rates. Like to find the extra cost for stainless, but in catalogs of this period, prices were printed on a separate sheet.
Steve, don’t loose heart about not being a “.22 guy”; you’re young enough to overcome this malady if you apply yourself.
November 7, 2015
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Steve-
Not a .22 guy? The only thing I have against rimfires is that I don’t get to use all my fancy and expensive reloading equipment. One nice thing about rimfires is that I don’t have to use all my fancy and expensive reloading equipment. If some wise person prescribes some rimfire therapy I’ll be happy to help, just PM for directions.
Mike
TXGunNut said
The only thing I have against rimfires is that I don’t get to use all my fancy and expensive reloading equipment. If some wise person prescribes some rimfire therapy I’ll be happy to help, just PM for directions.Mike
Mike, let me introduce you to the .22 rimfire Neal Waltz die – https://www.portercalls.com/neal_waltz_die.htm
It certainly added MANY more enjoyable hours to my rimfire hobby with experimentation and testing! Aside from the bullet nose modifications for field use, I run all of my Match ammo through it to standardize concentricity/runout.
Best Regards,
WACA Life Member #6284 - Specializing in Pre-64 Winchester .22 Rimfire
JWA said
Mike, let me introduce you to the .22 rimfire Neal Waltz die – https://www.portercalls.com/neal_waltz_die.htm
It certainly added MANY more enjoyable hours to my rimfire hobby with experimentation and testing! Aside from the bullet nose modifications for field use, I run all of my Match ammo through it to standardize concentricity/runout.
No time yet to read in detail, but thanks for posting! Some 40 yrs ago I bought a trim-die advertised in Rifle mag that produces similar results by turning any round-nose bullet into a “wad-cutter.” A whole lot less sophisticated (& cheaper): merely run round into die & file nose flat. As I never hunted with anything but Tenex, it made that match round a very effective killer. Later, had a machinist make a similar die for factory .32 S&W Longs (then, too cheap to bother reloading), & what a dramatic diff that made: almost too destructive for small-game hunting!
I remember that file-flat nose die but never bought one.
I bought my Neal Waltz die set many years ago and at that time they came with a flat nose die as well as the center spike and standard hollow point. Back then they were less than $100 for the set (which I thought was pricey at the time). I have had lots of fun experimenting with it and it gives me one more reason to go out and shoot more.
Best Regards,
WACA Life Member #6284 - Specializing in Pre-64 Winchester .22 Rimfire
TXGunNut said
Steve-Not a .22 guy? The only thing I have against rimfires is that I don’t get to use all my fancy and expensive reloading equipment. One nice thing about rimfires is that I don’t have to use all my fancy and expensive reloading equipment. If some wise person prescribes some rimfire therapy I’ll be happy to help, just PM for directions.
Mike
Mike,
Now you’ve done it. They were just getting quiet and ready for their pre-afternoon-nap Thorazine injections but you’ve set them off again.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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